Sunday, July 31, 2011

The Federal Debt Problem... A Visualization

A couple of screen shots from an interesting data visualization:

Those teeny tiny things are individual pallets of one hundred million dollars, each. It gets worse, much worse. Go look for yourself. Is it any wonder sane Americans are upset by this sort of debt? I think not.

11 comments:

You have to understand, those pallets are still fighting World War II. The troops in Germany, Italy, and Japan consume a lot of them. Then there's Korea, which is a smaller force.

Then too, America has to prop-up many countries. Israel, Pacific Islands, Nevada, etc. Congress owns enough land, that we could create three more states.

Gold in Fort Knox? What is that for? Actually, there's not enough left to even balance the Obama administration bills, let alone the debt run-up since 1776.

My opinion, like Rome, the few will destroy the country from within. That destruction has been ongoing since JFK, and has resulted in America not even able to find a white man to run for President anymore (70 year old men don't count).

It is just like Rome. Politicians gave from the public coffers back then to buy votes.

Democracy is good but the reason why the founders wanted this country to be a representative republic instead of a truer democracy was to put a curb on being able to vote your way to handouts. It didn't work though.

Reading through some of the posts on that site gives me chills. The leftists still think that government is the answer, even though that is the very source of the outlandish spending that has brought us to this point.

There are things which are fine with government. The trouble comes from both sides wanting more control and power and are willing to gain it through spending OUR money and great grandchildren's money.

And yet the left calls the Tea Party folks tyrants because they see this and finally are saying enough.